65. Product Usage as a Vanity Metric w/ Chris Hicken
Product usage is a vanity metric.
Actually, product usage is just one of 15 factors that companies should use to build a picture of their organization’s health. These belong in four “buckets” that show what to track instead to create a risk profile for each account (likelihood to renew or churn).
In this episode, I interview Chris Hicken, cofounder and CEO at ‘nuffsaid, about what tracking product usage is (and isn’t) good for.
What we talked about:
- 4 main buckets: Customer Maturity, The Product, The Experience, The Pricing
- Why the CS leader should own more go-to-market strategy in the future
- Considerations for product-led growth, sales-led growth, and marketing-led growth
- Why free and freemium may not be a good fit
- Considerations for going up market from SMB to Enterprise
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